![]() I had a good feeling about getting a Season 3, so we decided to let people wonder. What made you decide to leave the season with those questions, especially when you don’t know for sure whether you’ll get to finish telling that story?ĭANIELS: I might be overconfident, but this was the number one half-hour comedy on Prime Video and people seem really into it. With him being re-uploaded from a backup file, it feels like there could be several Nathans, no Nathans, or any manner of strange things happening. I have to admit that I am worried about where things are going next with all of this, between the very real chance that the download might not work and Nathan’s head could explode again. It might have been in the rehearsals, they just noticed that was an opportunity, but it was cool. I’m not exactly sure where the idea came from. Robbie is also very buff, so it was just funny. I just couldn’t stop laughing with that whole sequence.ĭANIELS: It’s just a complicated position to be in, if you’re Matteo, and you’re forced to help Nathan. She takes a lot of crazy steps to get there, but she’s got one aim and it’s a very loving Nathan aim. I feel like she’s a pretty flawed person, but the fact that she loves him so much and is doing most of this stuff just to end up with him, saves her character a bit. What did she know? She was trying to protect him, by turning on the preferred occupant setting of the car, but that means she suspected that her dad was trying to kill him. ![]() The issue of her complicity in his murder came up. I don’t know if we knew that when we started to write her. What made you decide to go that route, with her faking it all?ĭANIELS: If you think about it as a metaphor, she’s like the girlfriend who fakes a pregnancy to try to nail down the boyfriend. She’s just been pretending, the entire time. Just when you feel like maybe you can sympathize with Ingrid (Allegra Edwards), she has to go and reveal that she didn’t really die and upload herself. I really am just picturing the way that this cast has interpreted all the characters. There are a lot of different versions in my head, but now that it’s actually been produced, I can barely remember them. I had a whole rewrite for Hannibal, at one point, which is funny to think about. And then, I had a draft where I thought maybe Nathan would be played by Hannibal Buress. And then, once you cast it, then you really know who you’re writing about. He had a whole backstory where he was Persian American, but with the different rewrites, a lot changed. For instance, in my first draft, I modeled Nathan after my barber, who’s a Persian American guy from Westwood who’s very good-looking and easy with the ladies. ![]() I can barely remember what my initial thoughts were. Now that you’ve done two seasons, how does what you’ve been able to do with this compare to what you thought it could be, when you first conceived it?ĭANIELS: I think it’s grown so much. This is a show that you’ve been thinking about for a while, on and off, in various forms over the years. We did add a few beats to the end of episode seven, the week that we were shooting it, which threw a lot of new stuff into Season 3. But sometimes, in the process of shooting, we’ll change something. ![]() We have table readings in the beginning, so they know everything. RELATED: Andy Allo on 'Upload' Season 2, the Twists and Turns, and Nora's JourneyĪt the start of the season, do you tell your actors what their full arc for the season will be, with all of those twists and turns, or are there things that you intentionally hold back until as late as possible?ĭANIELS: The way this streaming eight-episode chunk of production happens, all the scripts are done before we start shooting. But the general bones of the frustrating separation at the end, and then how they possibly find their way back to each other, and what’s happening in the mystery, is stuff I had. When I pitched it back in 2014, I had two seasons in my pitch, so I had a general sense, but you gather a new group of writers together and you realize, “Oh, wait a minute, you know what’s really popping is this thing from Season 1.” You discuss it and it goes off, sometimes, into a different direction. During this 1-on-1 interview with Collider, Daniels talked about having a two-season plan in his initial pitch for the series, getting all the scripts written before they start shooting the season, the evolution of the Nathan character from earlier versions of the story, the progressing of the Nathan-Nora relationship, the very flawed Ingrid, the big questions left with the cliffhanger for Season 2, and that they’re already at work for a Season 3 that they’re very hopeful will happen.Ĭollider: When you did the first season and left us with that cliffhanger, did you know where you were going next in Season 2? Did you already have all of the answers to those questions?
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